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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Jun 21, 2022 • 30 tweets • 30 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/ear…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Come As You Are Co-...
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.

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Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"

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Hey look at this

* @Bobosphere's final broadcast bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#…

* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay gmtk.itch.io/platformer-too… (h/t @waxy)

* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-ha… 5/ Image
#20yrsago #Perl is Internet #Yiddish web.archive.org/web/2002062116…

#20yrsago The invention of #Warchalking web.archive.org/web/2002102004…

#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies punkrockbaby.com

#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again web.archive.org/web/2007081301… 6/ Image
#15yrsago #GoldFarming makes the NYT nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag…

#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die web.archive.org/web/2007070320…

#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation web.archive.org/web/2007062603… 7/ Image
#10yrsago DMZ is finished: @brianwood nailed the ending memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz…

#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20…

#10yrsago @paolobacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf web.archive.org/web/2014122512… 8/ Image
#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/dru…

#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game reddit.com/r/gaming/comme… 9/ Image
#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid popehat.com/2012/06/19/the… 10/ Image
#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon

#10yrsago @aaronsw reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/gue… 11/ Image
#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/… 12/
#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/

#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996… 13/ Image
#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe…

#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists cjr.org/business_of_ne… 14/ Image
#5yrsago Every year, @Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills treehugger.com/starbucks-cups…

#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery usatoday.com/pages/interact…

#5yrsago Canon #Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus web.archive.org/web/2017042307… 15/ Image
#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckle…

#5yrsago @sxsw condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… 16/ Image
#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-…

#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the… 17/ Image
#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-…

#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: @abigaildisney on tax evasion and the American caste system pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 18/ Image
#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 19/ Image
Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 21/
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 22/ Image
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

craphound.com/shop/ 23/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 26/ Image
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"

doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agr… 27/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧟‍♀️". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 28/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 29/
Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org), @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/ Image

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Jul 30
Delta's announced new surveillance pricing: they're feeding an AI your nonconsensually harvested personal info that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:



1/ fortune.com/2025/07/16/del…Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer,' which depicts a sleight-of-hand artist doing a cup-and-balls routine for a group of amazed yokels. It has been altered. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a Delta Airlines logo over his breast. The table on which the cup-and-balls game is playing out sports a crashed jet in Delta livery, smoke rising from the wreckage. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Data-brokers sell all kinds of data, from the "legitimate" info about everywhere your car's been, to everywhere place the Bluetooth radios on your phone and headphones has been, to everything you've bought, to every sit you've visited and every search you've performed.

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Jul 22
Ever notice how many right wing influencers are on the grift?

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Jul 3
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*.

1/ A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Sure, the racism and cruelty excites a minority of (very broken) people, but every component of the Trump agenda is *extremely* unpopular with the American people, from tax cuts for billionaires to kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them to concentration camps.

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Jul 1
If there's one are where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

1/ A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Jun 28
In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," published in *Perspectives on Politics*:



1/ cambridge.org/core/journals/…An inflatable pig balloon against a blue sky, bearing the Zohran for Mayor logo. The Chrysler Building sits to one side. Image: Frank Vincentz (modified) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geeste_-_Biener_Stra%C3%9Fe_-_Speicherbecken_-_Drachenfest_38_ies.jpg Petri Krohn https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_building-_top.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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The paper's authors are Martin Gilens, a UCLA professor of Public Policy; and Northwestern's Benjamin Page, a professor of Decision Making. Gilens and Page studied a representative sample of 1,779 policy issues.

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Jun 24
When a company sells you something for $2 that someone else can buy for $1, they're revaluing the dollars in your pocket at half the rate of the other guy's.

1/ A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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